Copper is at present above today’s Neutral Zone, whilst below same is Oil; BEGOS Markets’ volatility is again light. Gold nicely commenced its new weekly parabolic Short trend by — as surmised in The Gold Update — firmly rising yesterday, (albeit that doesn’t preclude there not being lower levels in the offing); too, Gold’s cac volume today is rolling from December into that for February, inclusive of +37 points of fresh premium; rolling as well today is Silver’s cac volume from December into that for March, (and to follow today/tomorrow is same for the Bond). At Market Trends, six of eight linregs are negative, the only two positives being those for Gold and Silver. Scheduled for the Econ Baro are November’s Consumer Confidence, October’s Pending Home Sales, and in playing “catch-up”, September’s PPI and Retail Sales.